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The court heard Mr Pickerden, of Maidwell Way, Grimsby, had dishonesty convictions which should have been declared in the mortgage application. He had been jailed for 42 months at Lincoln Crown Court in September 1996 for conspiracy to steal and jailed for a year at Grimsby Crown Court in February 1997 for handling stolen goods.

The prosecution claimed that Mr Pickerden "deliberately" entered a different type of offence - assault - on the application form, a crime for which he had never actually been convicted.